This shows that under are present in all disciplines

Is the good performance of the Blues to the world of football able to revive a forlorn French sport after the failure of the candidacy of Paris to the Organization of the Olympic Summer Games in 2012 "The path of our footballers in this cup of the world is good news, so she enrolled as a result of other performance obtained recently by our France teams in rugby, basketball, handball, judo and swimming including.". "This should however not to forget the reform of the management of professional sport", said an expert. In an unpublished study conducted by Havas sports and published last December in "Sport", the France was classified third world power of its kind, behind the United States and the Russia. The survey, based on 51 sports covering more than 130 disciplines and 1.314 different events, showed us athletes had won 222 titles in recent months for a total of 581 medals before the Russia (98 titles for a total of 282 medals) and France (88 titles for a total of 251 medals).

"There is a sporting culture widespread in all social classes, as in the older's younger, at the school as the University across the Atlantic." This is why sports are an integral part of the education of children. "It further that good sports results can help a student to be accepted into a prestigious University and pay tuition", analysis Craig Robert Steinhagen, Ambassador of the United States in France.

Contrast, in France, National Education never took seriously the practice of sport and marginally trafficking (lack of infrastructure, lack of teachers, etc.). However, in addition, this 3rd place, which propels the also at the forefront of the countries of the European Union, the France is number 1 worldwide in fencing, motor sports and outdoor and freestyle disciplines. The French are also present in the global Top 5 in ball sports, snowshoeing, of water, combat. "I am happily surprised ...". This shows that under are present in all disciplines. "It is also an expression of a certain stability and a history of French sport," said, optimistic, Jean-François Lamour, Minister of youth, Sports and associative life.

Policies are reluctant

The French are historically more steeped in artistic or literary culture and sport. According a survey cited by majors (Group "Les echos") in his study on the sports sponsorship, 77 of them are interested, or even very interested by the culture, compared with 56 of British and 59 of the Germans. "The image and the legitimacy of the sport in French society were not, there are still 20 years, comparable to those of culture, especially among opinion leaders," wrote the author of the study, Frédéric Bolotny.

The victory of the Blues to the world of 1998, is in France, and the success achieved in the Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands have raised many hopes. Unfortunately, the suite was not up to expectations, the Blues failing shockingly world 2002 in South Korea and the Japan, as well as to the European Championship to the Portugal in 2004.

In the aftermath, the France lost the Organization of the games of summer of 2008 for the benefit of Beijing, and then the year past those of 2012, who returned to London. A necessary reflection was hired by the Minister Jean-François Lamour, in liaison with the national Committee on Olympic and French leaving most observers on "hungry." The role and the mission of the CNOSF not were asked, while most observers have a critical eye on this organization "too administrative" in charge of the sport. Then, the place that must take the "business world" in the development of the sport is considered "shy" and too oriented towards "classic sponsorship". This pushed the Lagardère Group, which had hosted the Club Business Paris 2012, to Maverick by launching a series of initiatives, with the creation of a team of athletes, the development of the stade Jean-Bouin and perhaps exploitation of the Croix Catelan in Paris.

Should we continue to focus on the "mixed economy" system involving the State and, especially, local grants (stage management) in the life of professional clubs and some major federations have today become of real companies (144.6 million budget for the FFF in 2006-2007), or must we squarely switch on the anglo-saxon model, which favours "private initiative" "We feel good that political power is reluctant, either on the problem of the entry into Fellowship of clubs or the modernization of the stages for example." But he will have to decide quickly, because the France may not remain from a development widely committed in our neighbors. We must see the quality of the stages of the global German to understand the effort that must undertake the France in this area. "It is not enough to identify equipment such as recently the Ministry, he must now decide who will finance and manage stages to host major sporting events", our expert analysis.

The next World Rugby, to be held in the hexagon in the fall of 2007, could promote this mutation which stage of France is a good example, a compound living rite of the blue a certain month of July 1998.